Mr Klaus Grabinski from Germany, as President of the Court of Appeal, and Ms Florence Butin from France, as President of the Court of First Instance, will lead the Unified Patent Court.
This…
As readers are well aware, Directive 2004/48 EC (known as the "Enforcement Directive"), stemming from Part III of the TRIPS Agreement, was meant to introduce a minimum level of intellectual property…
Geofabrics Limited v Fiberweb Geosynthetics Limited [2022] EWHC 2363 (Pat)
Geofabrics Limited (“Geofabrics”) has been awarded £13.4 million in damages for patent infringement, concluding a 5 year…
Although the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (AUPC) cannot be considered Union (EU) Law, it is couched in the wording of EU legal acts seeking to create “unitary patent protection” as part of “…
Just over 2 years after the SPC waiver Regulation (EU) 2019/933 (amending the Regulation (EC) No 469/2009) entered into force (1 July 2019), and only a few months after the end of the transitional…
The Unified Patent Court has provided more information about the new authentication mode and electronic signature, which are necessary to access the CMS of the new court.
As is explained in a…
The Unified Patent Court will finally become a reality, open its doors and start to receive cases from 1 April 2023. This is announced in the implementation roadmap, which was published yesterday by…
The Unified Patent Court has postponed the introduction of a new login process for its content management system, based on a strong authentication schema, to the end of October.
Late August,…
The so-called proportionality defense according to Sec. 139(1) clause 3 (hereinafter simply "proportionality defense") is one of the newest provisions of the German Patent Act. It has only been…
On March 31, 2022, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) publicized the “Good Faith Negotiation Guidelines for Standard Essential Patent Licenses” (hereinafter, the “METI Guidelines”).…
